Painting journey today

The day started with an excellent article about Lisa Yuskavage in the New Yorker.

Click on the link of her name, to look at her paintings.

It also got me looking at The Painter's Studio, The Garden of earthly delight, Sacred Conversation. I could look at these paintings quite a lot. I zoom in and out.

The New York Times profile linked below states that she liked Duchamp's Étant donnés.

I wrote about her on my mental health blog.

New Yorker: "Nothing irritates Yuskavage as much as the suggestion that she is producing what her husband calls “stroke material for the patriarchy,” because that’s what buyers want."

“Yes, there are boobs everywhere, but it’s actually so unbelievably not about boobs,” James Rondeau, the director of the Art Institute of Chicago, told me. (During Rondeau’s tenure, the Institute has added four Yuskavage paintings to its collection, three of which are boob-free.) “It’s more like, you’ve got to have your knockers out—and they’ve got to be huge and weird—if I’m going to really talk to you about a landscape of acceptance.” What Yuskavage ultimately seeks to provoke, in this view, is empathy: for the figure, for the painter, for the victimizer and the victimized, the low and the high, the self who is staring, lost, at the conflagration of color. (New Yorker)

I want to quote the whole article, but you know, just read the article. I'm honestly blogging about her to help me remember. I'll come back to this post over and over again.

Links:

NY Times on Yuskavage

Michelangelo's Cangiantismo (referenced in the New Yorker article).

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